All of your commandments are faithful. They persecute me wrongfully. Help me!
Parallel translations
- KJV All thy commandments are faithful: they persecute me wrongfully; help thou me.
- BSB All Your commandments are faithful; I am persecuted without cause—help me!
- ESV All your commandments are sure; they persecute me with falsehood; help me!
- NKJV All Your commandments are faithful; They persecute me wrongfully; Help me!
- NASB All Your commandments are faithful; They have persecuted me with a lie; help me!
- NLT All your commands are trustworthy. Protect me from those who hunt me down without cause.
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- Ps 35:19Don’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.
- Ps 70:5But I am poor and needy. Come to me quickly, God. You are my help and my deliverer. Yahweh, don’t delay.
- Ps 35:7For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul.
- Ps 109:26Help me, Yahweh, my God. Save me according to your loving kindness;
- Ps 119:78Let the proud be disappointed, for they have overthrown me wrongfully. I will meditate on your precepts.
- Ps 119:128Therefore I consider all of your precepts to be right. I hate every false way. PEY
- Rom 7:12Therefore the law indeed is holy, and the commandment holy, and righteous, and good.
- Ps 119:138You have commanded your statutes in righteousness. They are fully trustworthy.
- Ps 119:151You are near, Yahweh. All your commandments are truth.
- Jer 18:20Shall evil be recompensed for good? For they have dug a pit for my soul. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.
- Ps 119:142Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness. Your law is truth.
- Ps 19:9The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring forever. Yahweh’s ordinances are true, and righteous altogether.
- Ps 38:19But my enemies are vigorous and many. Those who hate me without reason are numerous.
- Ps 7:1–5A meditation by David, which he sang to Yahweh, concerning the words of Cush, the Benjamite. Yahweh, my God, I take refuge in you. Save me from all those who pursue me, and deliver me,
- Ps 59:3–4For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul. The mighty gather themselves together against me, not for my disobedience, nor for my sin, Yahweh.
- Ps 143:9Deliver me, Yahweh, from my enemies. I flee to you to hide me.
- Ps 142:4–6Look on my right, and see; for there is no one who is concerned for me. Refuge has fled from me. No one cares for my soul.
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